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As January ends, I say farewell to that angel in gaiters, Mr. Pickwick.

Thing is, Mr. Pickwick himself was not all that important to the story. The villains set against him weren’t all that interesting, really (though Alfred Jingle was okay in small doses). Given the real villains were a pair...

Charles Dickens didn’t start writing with Pickwick Papers — his first published pieces were short “sketches” that ran in newspapers and other periodicals, and then compiled in Sketches by Boz. While I mainly focus on Dickens’s novels, Dickens would continue to write these short pieces throughout his career,...